His training later continued under the guidance of his father, Ali Akbar Khan, and his aunt, Annapurna Devi.

In Shanti, Aashish Khan is featured playing the acoustic sarode, sometimes through a guitar amplifier with a vibrato effect.

In the early 1980s, he and his brother Pranesh Khan took an interest in disco music following the success of Pakistani pop singer Nazia Hassan.

Khan has collaborated with John Barham, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Charles Lloyd, John Handy, Alice Coltrane, Emil Richards, Dallas Smith, Don Pope, Jorge Strunz, Ardeshir Farah, and the Philadelphia String Quartet.

Ustad Aashish Khan has co-led "Shringar" with Andrew McLean, featuring notable New Orleans musicians such as Tim Green and Jason Marsalis.

He also claimed that his family were never officially converted into Islam and the surname "Khan" did not necessarily imply he was a Muslim.

He based this assertion on his grandfather's, the late Ustad Allauddin Khan, biography, Aamar Katha (Bengali), that his forefathers were Hindus with the surname "Debsharma".

Ali Akbar Khan told the Times of India newspaper in an email: "I do not support his (Aashish's) choice.

He final resting place is in the Islamic Garden of Canejo Mountain Cemetery in Camarillo, California.